When Duncan first moved to San Francisco he was only 19 and mostly alone. So, naturally, I visited…a lot. I stayed in a wonderful B & B called 1818 California, just a few blocks from Duncan’s apartment. It was ideal. I felt so at home there and probably stayed in every room in the house
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We often think we know San Francisco fairly well, as we come here at least once a year and sometimes several times a year, but there are many neighborhoods we have never even set foot in. The Mission was one of them. We visited the Mission because one of my favorite designers in the world,
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If it’s Saturday morning in San Francisco, gotta go the Ferry Building Farmer’s Market. Every time we go, we find it has grown. At first it was almost all housed inside the Ferry Building, then there were just these tents out in front featuring a few farmers from around the Bay Area. Then it spread
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One of the primary reasons for us to visit the Bay Area is GRANDCHILDREN. Gerald lucked out in that arena and his middle daughter, Laurel, delivered triplets about nine years ago. Elliott, Emerson and Vienna are incredible children. They live in El Cerrito in the East Bay. They are total individuals yet can, when they
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Visitors to San Francisco from Honolulu often  make a point of going to SFMOMA, the DeYoung Museum and the California Academy of Sciences, but choose not to spend the time to get to the Asian Art Museum. Maybe we feel that we can see it all at the Honolulu Museum of Art? (I’m still trying
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Happy to report I am now in San Francisco, visiting my son, Duncan, and soon Gerald’s grandchildren, triplets Vienna, Elliott and Emerson. One of my first stops when visiting San Francisco is always Avant-Card, my favorite card shop in all the world.  It’s located at the gateway to Chinatown, at 338 Grant Avenue, just a
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You may not know this, but I have been freelancing for NMDaily, the Neiman Marcus online magazine, since it started a year or so ago. I write about happenings at NM Ala Moana, as well as some travel pieces. I really enjoy writing for their highly professional editor, Jean Schneidnes. And of course there are
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When Angie Higa, 51, of Mililani retired from her banking career, she knew she would travel. She didn’t know that her passion for travel would also become a new career. Frustrated with the hit-or-miss blankets on airplanes, Angie created Sky Dreams, a travel blanket that folds into a bag with a matching comfort neck pillow.
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Jerry and I awoke at 3 a.m. this morning to find a good place to watch the lunar eclipse. He knew just where to go: the end of Lagoon drive, in the parking lot that’s right next to the private plane section of the airport. It was sooooo worth getting up in the middle of
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Suzi Stuart-Wilson, an artist friend from Makiki, is the the mother of Kanoe Williams, the beautiful young woman pictured above with her husband, Ben Williams. Their photographer friend, Christie Pham, was recently in NYC and shot a wonderful series of the newlyweds enjoying the streets – and rooftops – of NYC. The photo above is pure nostalgia for me. When
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